What problem does it solve? Maintainers lose track of which issues need evaluation, which are waiting on reporters, and which are ready for implementation. This Skill structures issue and PR triage as an explicit state machine so every item gets categorized, verified, and either specified for work or closed with a recorded rationale. ## Core Features & Use Cases - State machine triage: Applies category roles (bug, enhancement) and state roles (needs-triage, needs-info, ready-for-agent, ready-for-human, wontfix) to issues and external PRs, treating a PR as an issue with attached code. - Verification and grilling: Reproduces reported bugs, checks out PR diffs to confirm claims, and runs structured questioning to flesh out underspecified requests before assigning work. - Agent briefs and out-of-scope records: Writes durable, behavior-focused agent briefs for delegation and maintains a .out-of-scope/ knowledge base so rejected feature requests are never re-litigated. - Use Case: A maintainer asks what needs attention; the Skill lists unlabeled, in-progress, and reporter-replied items, then walks issue #42 through codebase redundancy checks, verification, and a posted agent brief. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to triage issue #42 on the repository and recommend a category and state with reasoning.